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Uses of the Thematic Apperception Test

by: HA Murray

Publication date: 1951

Topics: Thematic Apperception Test, HA Murray, Memory Schema, F. Bartlett, OSS, Theodore R. Sarbin

Collection: journals_contributions; journals

Language: English

Murray, Henry A. "Uses of the thematic apperception test." American Journal of Psychiatry 107.8 (1951): 577-581.

HA Murray completed his thesis at Cambridge in 1928*, while F. Bartlett conducted his work at the Experimental Laboratory.

In 1943 Henry A. Murray published:

Murray, Henry Alexander. "Thematic apperception test." (1943).

...a year after the ratification of the Joint Psychological Board (1942.)

*Details
Title
Studies in physiological ontogeny / Henry Alexander Murray.
Author
Henry Alexander. Murray
Other entry
University of Cambridge. Faculty of Biology 'B'. Biochemistry.
Manufacturer
Cambridge : Henry Alexander Murray, 1928.
Creation Date
1928
Format
2 volumes : ill. ; 30cm.
Description
Thesis (Ph.D) -- University of Cambridge, 1928.
Subjects
Ontogeny
Language
English
Notes
Date: 15 October 1928.
Source
44CAM_ALMA

Language

English

Notes

Date: 15 October 1928.

Source

44CAM_ALMA

Note that an early version of Thematic Apperception can be seen in Bartlett's work:

Bartlett, Frederic C. Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932, p. 25

Experiments on Perceiving:

"...practically all the observers said 'It will be a crown', and began to infer the nature of coming changes. At once a specific attitude, containing a large mixture of expectancy, was set up, and by it the perceptual act was directed and determined."

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Also see:

Sarbin, Theodore R. "Rorschach patterns under hypnosis." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 9.2 (1939): 315.

Sarbin, Theodore R. "Contributions to role-taking theory: I. Hypnotic behavior." Psychological Review 57.5 (1950): 255.

"From introspective accounts and from observers' protocols it seems that stimuli are perceived by a markedly altered organism and that the responses are quantitatively and qualitatively different from those in the pre-and post-hypnotic periods."

...as it relates to altered states of perception under hypnotic trance.

-Lykaion Publishing 17OCT21